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TIL Humans were the first mammals to inhabit New Zealand, 900 years ago

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6mQm TIL the Game of Thrones showrunners/producers began trying to reduce the amount of frequent character and political intrigues during garden walks, because of the South Park parody episode ‘Black Friday’
rRX0d TIL that Harrison Schmitt, an American geologist, retired NASA astronaut, and former U.S. senator, is often credited with capturing the famed photograph of the Earth know as The Blue Marble, and he personally collected rock samples that suggested the moon once processed an active magnetic field.
6EypJ TIL about Ben Ferencz (100), the last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg Trials. After WW2 where he fought at D-Day and in other battles, he at age 27 became Chief Prosecutor at the Einsatzgruppen Trial - which was his first case and first time in a courtroom. All of the 22 accused were convicted.
OR17 TIL That people can detect nano-scale wrinkles as small as 13 nanometres while running their fingers upon a seemingly smooth surface. This means that, if your finger was the size of the Earth, you could feel the difference between houses from cars.
8aVkb TIL alchemists considered Mercury as a magical substance that a Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang took it as the elixir of immorality which resulted in him dying at the age of 49 and even he was buried in an underground mausoleum full of mercury thinking it's going to help him rule in the afterlife